Conference
Program
Friday April 1
12:00 Registration
12:30 Welcome and Introductions
Keynote Address
Lessons Learned From the Acid Deposition Research Experience
Anthony C. Janetos, Vice President, The Heinz Center
for Science, Economics and the Environment
1:30 SESSION I. THE ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS OF ACID DEPOSITION
Acid Rain Revisited
Charles Driscoll, Professor of Environmental Systems
Engineering, Syracuse University
Acid Deposition - Effects, Response
to Decreases in Sulphur Emissions, and Prospects for Long-term Recovery
Peter Dillon, Professor of Biogeochemistry, Environmental
and Resource Studies and Chemistry Departments, Trent University, Canada
Break
Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition:
Implications for Nutrient Cycling, Acidification and Terrestrial Ecosystem
Functioning
Knute J. Nadelhoffer, Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary
Biology, University of Michigan. Director, University of Michigan Biological
Station
Nitrogen Pollution From Acid
Rain is a Major Driver of Eutrophication in Coastal Marine Ecosystems.
Robert Howarth, Professor of Ecology and Environmental
Biology, Cornell University
4:30 Adjourn
5:00 Reception and Dinner
7:30 Keynote Address
Economics and Air Pollution Control
Paul Portney, President and Senior Fellow, Resources
for the Future
Saturday, April 2
8:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 SESSION II. ACID EMISSIONS AND ENERGY POLICY
U.S. Energy Policy and the Transmission
of Acid-producing Emissions Across State Boundaries
Daniel Sosland, Executive Director, Environment Northeast
Transboundary Acid Rain: Conflict to Cooperation to Collusion
Don Munton, Professor of Political Science, University
of Northern British Columbia
Break
Addressing the Transboundary
Acid Rain Issue in Western Europe: Lessons and Comparison with the U.S.
Experience
Miranda Schreurs, Associate Professor of Political Science,
University of Maryland
The Challenge of East European Integration & Compliance with
LRTAP
Barbara Connolly, Assistant Professor of Political Science,
Notre Dame
EU Integration and Acid Rain Policies in Central and Eastern Europe
Liliana Andonova, Assistant Professor of Government and Environmental Studies, Colby College
12:00 Lunch
Student Research Poster Session
1:30 SESSION III. SO2 AND THE MARKET
Choosing Environmental Policy:
Comparing Instruments and Outcomes in the United States and Europe
Richard D. Morgenstern, Senior Fellow at Resources for
the Future
Benefits and Costs from Sulfur Dioxide Trading: A Distributional Analysis
Ronald Shadbegian, UMASS - Dartmouth and Visiting Economist
at the Environmental Protection Agency's National Center for Environmental
Economics.
Break
From SO2
to Greenhouse Gases: Trends and Events Shaping Future Emissions Trading
Programs
Joseph Kruger, Visiting Scholar at Resources for the
Future
3:45 Concluding Presentation
Atmospheric Deposition and Conservation
Timothy H. Tear, Director of Conservation Science, Eastern
New York Chapter, The Nature Conservancy
4:30 Adjourn
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